Rivalry
Bumper Allen x Plus size!reader
Word Count: 1048 words
Warnings: Lil ansty?
Summary: Being Bumper's girlfriend and him being surprised when you audition for the Bellas
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You could hardly breathe as you looked out around side stage, out into the small crowd of longstanding acapella groups.
Right there, toward the back of the auditorium was Bumper and the Trebles.
You figured that he would be here, with this being his thing and all, but you were sort of hoping you’d be able to figure this out without him seeing.
You didn’t even tell Bumper about your audition this morning but it wasn’t exactly like you had a choice.
In all the time that you two had been together, he was constantly talking about how much he despised the Bellas and how ridiculous they were. There was nothing you could do to change that.
In the world of Acapella, they were literal rivals and you knew better than to try and remedy that.
Instead, you decided to just keep your singing talent to yourself. It was his thing, and you were okay with that, for the most part. Recently, you’d realized that there was an opening with the Bellas.
This year, they were making changes and you wanted to be a part of it.
Bumper was just going to have to deal with that.
Besides, just because you auditioned, didn’t mean that you’d get in. All you were doing was taking a chance and you expected him to accept that. It was all you could do.
In years past, you never thought you’d be able to even audition for them. Traditionally, they didn’t let in girls like you but that was changing now.
You had a real shot, and you weren’t going to waste it.
All you had to do was hope that Bumper would be able to get over it.
The audition song they’d settled on was ‘Since you’ve been gone’ by Kelly Clarkson, a song that you all knew by heart at this point in your lives. It may not have been your first choice but you were going to try nonetheless.
You just had to do it.
It was now or never.
You took a deep breath, swallowed the doubt in your throat, and made up your mind. You were going to do this, and whatever happened after, you would deal with it.
The room was silent as you walked out onto the stage, ready to make their decisions about you. However, there was another reason for their silence that you decided not to think about.
Everyone knew that you and Bumper were a couple, and that was going to create quite the problem if you got accepted into another rival group. You just hoped Aubrey would give you a chance anyway.
It wasn’t lost on you that he wasn’t exactly her favorite person.
...But as soon as you started to sing, all that faded away.
Your voice spoke for itself, and it was good. As much as she hated Bumper, Audrey knew that she couldn’t just pass you up, especially not with the current state of the Bellas.
She needed all the help she could get, and you would certainly do the trick in that department.
As it would turn out though, the audition part was never the problem. What you were really dreading was afterwards, when you would have to face Bumper over what you’d done.
Luckily, you felt so good after it was over that you forgot about that part for a couple minutes.
It wasn’t until he was in front of you that you had to actually reconcile with that.
“What was that?” he asked, not even bothering to take his feet down from the seat in front of him as he looked at you. Of all the things he could have seen you doing today, this wouldn’t have even cracked the top fifty.
...But here you were.
“Come on Bump, it’s not that big of a deal” you shrugged, hoping he would just move on. Really, it wasn’t the most important thing you were ever going to do.
You just wanted to sing a little and have some fun.
“Not that big of a deal? How is this not that big of a deal?” he gasped, shocked that you would even dare to say that to him. Acapella was his life, the only thing he cared about, and you had betrayed him.
To Bumper, this was the worst thing you could have done.
It was the ultimate betrayal.
“It’s just a club, I didn’t think it mattered” you shrugged, though that was partially a lie. You had a not so subtle suspicion that Bumper would have a problem with it from the very start.
...But you couldn’t change it now.
You had already auditioned and you thought it went pretty well. If you happened to make it in, you weren’t going to pass it up just because Bumper didn’t like them.
“Yeah, well, it does. You can’t be a Bella and my girlfriend” he huffed, crossing his arms across his chest like he often would when he was upset.
Usually though, he only did that when there was no more chocolate froyo in the cafeteria or when he dropped the much inferior vanilla froyo on his walk back to his building.
You’d never gotten into a real argument like this, but you weren’t going to just back down. You wanted to be a Bella and as your boyfriend, Bumper should have supported that.
What you shared should have been far more important than some old rivalry.
Until now, you thought it was.
“Well I guess you’re gonna have to get a new girlfriend because I’m not giving this up” you sighed, turning away as quickly as you could away from him.
At times like this, you hated Bumper for acting like this. You were there for him all the time but when you finally needed him to just be supportive, he couldn't do that.
You were tired of it.
Right now, all you wanted to do was go get some coffee or something while you waited for them to get back to you.
It would be good for you and Bumper to get a little bit of space, besides, he had things to do. The Trebles had initiates to and nothing could happen without his say so.
That had to be his priority, because you certainly weren’t.
